Saturday, March 22, 2014

Sox Knocker Saturday: DIVERGENT

I wanted to love this movie cause I love the author and her agent, and her book to film agent.
My heart was in my throat when I sat down in the theatre cause a LOT of movies don't translate well to the big screen.

Well, let's just say my sox were the popcorn box when the movie was done!

Divergent is absolutely wonderful. You don't have to have read the book to get the movie either (although why I think anyone hasn't read the book at this point, I don't know!)

And in case you think "oh Janet, you're just biased cause you adore Veronica" well, here's another opinion from someone who as far as I know hasn't ever set eyeballs on Veronica.

Nope, my eyeballs have never set on Ms. Roth, although I did score a level up and +200 cool points at the theater when I informed a couple of high school girls that I had met her agent at a writers' conference.

"It doesn't hurt you at all because you don't want an agent who clearly doesn't understand that novelists should be known for their work, not the fact they want to be writers."from your Wednesday post. That was great! Thank you.

My sox were knocked by this:malihini-view.blogspot.com by my sweet friend Becca. It's one of those inherited relationships: my mum is friends with her grandma; I adore her parents (and the woman her dad married after Becca's mother passed) and Becca's little girls--let's just say, if arranged marriages were not considered barbaric, my sons' lives would be aaaall planned out. Becca is a teacher who added Hawaiian to Dutch and Japanese to certify. I can never tell if it's her brain or her heart that dazzles me most.

In the scene where Four is about to show Tris his tattoos, the guy next to me shouted, "Take it off!" and the whole theater laughed.Why is this movie so suspenseful? I've already read the book and of course she's not going to die twenty minutes into the movie, but I sill got worried when she jumped from the train.

Divergent knocked my socks off too! Just fabulous. In fact, there were a few things I liked more in the movie than the book (although I loved the book). For instance, the climactic fight scene with Four was...well, even more climactic. Awesomesauce.

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